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Global KeyNote Speakers

All the KeyNote speakers on our directory are screened by our recruitment team. They are inspirational thought-leaders, and experienced and accomplished speakers. Our teams are here to advise you on the most suitable speaker for your event. You can rest assured that you will get the inspirational subject-matter expert that you are looking for. Our speakers have typically spoken to large audiences (hundreds of people). In addition, we are training experts and thought-leaders to inspire from stage.

Are you looking for thought leaders and experts in the areas of leadership, marketing, HR, diversity and inclusion, technology, finance, sustainability, transformation, politics, mindfulness, or sexual health? We have them all! You can have a diverse and balanced speaker panel at your next conference, convention, or corporate gathering.

Global

Jill Goldenziel

Dr. Goldenziel speaks and consults on International Law, International Security, Geopolitical Risk, Leadership, Business, and Human Rights, Migration, and Disinformation. She has briefed United Nations officials, world parliamentarians, and senior military leaders on her award-winning research, including speaking alongside Angela Merkel and other world leaders at the Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt the Global Compact for Migration.  At Marine Corps University, Dr. Goldenziel has lectured 1,200 U.S. and foreign field-grade military officers on the law of war, international law, and migration, and has taught 200 officers in seminars on law, leadership, and international security.  She is also an Affiliated Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Fox Leadership International program.  Dr. Goldenziel’s work has appeared in top scholarly journals, and she is regularly quoted and cited in the press. She holds a Ph.D. and A.M. in Government from Harvard, a J.D. from NYU, and an A.B. from Princeton. Visit http://www.jillgoldenziel.com and follow her @JillGoldenziel.     

Leadership

Geopolitical Risk

Business and Human Rights

Law

Global

Valerie Chow

360 marketer - Valerie’s moniker and branding with her versatile integrated marketing experience in both digital and offline. Her strong marketing experience in Retail was honed through exposure to global brands from Nike, Marks, and Spencer to Harvey Norman. She started her career in merchandising, evolving to branding and marketing – inherent in her the ability to upskill. Pivoting her career to the Insurance industry to deepen her digital skills was the biggest “change” in her career – thrown into agile working needing a continuous growth mindset.    Change, she did, and keep on developing is her motto! With the love to learn seeded since young, she was awarded a scholarship by the Japanese government to study MBA in Tokyo, an eye-opening cultural and immersive knowledge experience. Her nature to keep on evolving in both career and life fosters a strong self-development for success. She mentors and coaches to help others to flourish onwards. 

Marketing

Self-development

Success

Global

Dr. Elke Duwenig

Dr. Elke Duwenig is an inspiring senior expert, skilled in biotechnology and innovation on agricultural and life science challenges, with a passion for sustainable solutions. She is currently active in Regulatory and Government Affairs for Human Nutrition, Animal Nutrition, Enzymes, Flavour, and Pharma products at Nutrition & Health, BASF SE. She was also an expert lead in the Corporate Renewable Raw Material Roadmap at BASF. Elke gives expert guidance for strategies and roadmaps as well as for R&D projects and sales products. She is strongly engaged in legislation and authority work to safeguard biotech products and opening markets together with EuropaBio, EU SFI, FEFANA, AMFEP, and other trade associations and think tanks like BIC, ILSI, and AFSI, both in the EU and globally.   Elke studied biology and chemistry at the University of Münster, Germany, and Stanford University, USA. She graduated and completed her doctorate in molecular plant physiology at the Institute for Gene-Biological Research (Institut für genbiologische Forschung) IGF, Berlin, and did two postdocs at the Max-Planck Institute in Golm and the University of Freiburg, Germany, before joining BASF.   

Biotechnology

Sustainability

Green Transformation

Global

Susan Heaton-Wright

Susan Heaton-Wright is a Virtual impact, communications, and speaking expert for rising leaders and the creator of the Superstar Communicator™ methodology.   A quiet, anxious school girl, she conquered her nerves to become an international opera singer, a keynote speaker, and is now a Fellow of the Professional Speaking Association UK. She says, “If I can speak, anyone can!”.   Susan inspires everyone to make a positive impact in business conversations by being concise, influential, confident, and credible. A multi-award-winning businesswoman, in 2020 she was named in the IALSO 100 Top Female Entrepreneurs in the UK. A Podcast host herself for many years, she is regularly interviewed on BBC Radio, local radio stations and for international podcasts.   Susan has delivered seminars, workshops, and training at numerous companies and institutions including; Durham University, LSE, Penn University Alumnae, Pfizer, I.H.S. Deloitte, Invesco, and Hewlett Packard Enterprises. Her audiences are worldwide and she has presented online to attendees from more than 90 countries.

Management

Success

Communication

Global

Abam Mambo

Abam Mambo is the Managing Director for workplace consultancy, BelongingIQ. She’s an employment lawyer, Belonging, Diversity and Inclusion strategist, and thought leader on workplace culture. She helps organizations boost employee engagement by etching Belongingness into their cultural footprint.     Her Belongingness Quotient model adopts a fresh and multi-disciplinary approach to creating a diverse, inclusive, safe and engaged workforce. A captivating speaker, Abam has spoken in over 25 cities around the world to organizations including the World Health Organization, Microsoft, GSK, John Deere, and Transparency International, etc.     A former litigator and workplace investigator, she has advised and trained C-suite executives and their organizations on fair employment practices, diversity and inclusion, and speak-up culture. Abam has held regional, director-level roles in Legal and Compliance at Microsoft and GSK. She’s lived and led teams in North America, Africa, and Asia, and is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School and the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.  

Belonging and Community

Diversity and Inclusion

Engagement and Speak Up

Personal Development

Global

Lakshmi Ramachandran

Dr. Lakshmi Ramachandran, PhD in Cell & Molecular Biology (USA) has over two decades of experience in diverse areas of science such as academic and pharma research, communications and research programme management.     She is an advocate of STEM and actively promotes people in science as the ambassador of the global stories in science initiative and as a co-lead organizer of the Gender Summit Asia Pacific, 2019 Singapore (GS16). Her uniqueness lies in her versatility. She is a writer, speaker, model, role model, poet, and mother of two young boys. She shares her personal experiences within and outside of science through her blog Assorted Life Flavours on lakshmiramachandran.com.     She has co-authored a unique memoir-cookbook called 'Roomies/Foodies', a witty and informative survival guide for Indian students going abroad. Born in India, brought up in India and the Middle East, educated in the US, and living in Singapore for the last 7 years, she is a global citizen, passionate about a better, peaceful and equal world. 

Empowerment

Gender

STEM

Global

Melanie Voskamp

Melanie works as a Revenue Controller in Singapore and has over 12 years of experience from a Magic Circle law firm as well as a premier international law firm. She chairs the Women in Business Community at ADB-Dutch Cham which has been an active partner with KeyNote on various events covering bold, food-for-thought content. Melanie is passionate about making people aware of their ability to evolve and grow.     She is originally from the Netherlands but has lived and worked in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. She speaks 4 languages and describes herself as honest with a hint of Dutch directness, balanced by a respectful and serviceable attitude. She has a bachelor’s degree in Hotel Administration from the Hotel school "The Hague". This has engrained in her a “getting things done with a smile” approach that serves her well in the industry she now works in. 

Empowerment

Self-development

Health/Well-being

Global

Natalia Rachel

Natalia Rachel shares her voice to begin to remedy the world’s state of hustle, trauma, disconnect, and disrespect. Her insights into the human condition and our profound need for healing, self-compassion, empathy, and belonging, inspire audiences to awaken their hearts, illuminate their patterns and step forward towards self-care and relational repair.   Natalia Rachel brings an amalgamation of knowledge from years working as a therapist and clinic director with a focus on trauma & abuse recovery, as well as her own personal journey recovering from mental health misdiagnosis and physical health conditions that stemmed from childhood trauma. She is a proud recipient of the Women Icons Asia Award (emerging entrepreneur) for social impact in the domain of trauma-informed culture transformation & self-mastery education.   Her desire to answer the existential questions ‘Why am I?’, ‘Why are you?’, and ‘Why are we?’, led her on an incredible journey exploring mainstream & mental healthcare, complementary healthcare, and the spectrum of spirituality and the healing arts. Her messages distill over 20 years of her own lived self-mastery.  As we learn to live in an endemic world, Natalia Rachel is frequently called on to speak and facilitate workshops that inspire a proactive approach to healing and a collective shift towards peace and power. All her work highlights the undoubted link between mind, body, spirit, and relationships.    Her topics include belonging, mental health, trauma & trauma-informed culture, boundaries, respect & power, empathy, compassion & vulnerability. All her talks blend concepts from science, psychology, interpersonal neurobiology, philosophy and spirituality in an engaging, accessible format that includes conceptual learning, experiential process, story, self-inquiry, and self-care tool kit development. Audiences walk away feeling energized, hopeful, and empowered to walk their own path of mastery and become accountable for their social footprint.

Health/Well-being

Global

Nimisha Tailor

Nimisha is a competition and regulation specialist with 20 years of international experience. Having worked in consultancy firms and competition regulators in the UK, New Zealand, and Singapore, she has a deep understanding of how regulators operate and how markets function. She has led high-profile merger investigations, drafted merger regulation guidelines, assessed complaints of anti-competitive behavior, and advised government agencies on competition matters. As a former Deputy Director at the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore, Nimisha supervised in-depth market studies on e-commerce and various consumer products. As an expert, she was seconded to the Singapore Tourism Board to lead a regulatory review. With an evidence-based approach, Nimisha has advised companies on the competition effects of their business strategies.     She has written articles on competition matters in industry publications and has presented her ongoing research on Competition in the Data Economy. Using case studies and practical examples, Nimisha has conducted competition training workshops, presented to industry associations, business schools, universities, workshops for ASEAN government agencies, as well as at the International Competition Network Conference. Having spoken at both academic and Tech Industry conferences, her expertise connects public-private sector perspectives and is invaluable to businesses, governments, and academia looking to understand the growing competition issues in the digital economy. Nimisha is passionate about developing the next generation of leaders and in her spare time she volunteers as a mentor to university students planning their careers. She also supervises a team of students leading consulting projects for non-profit organizations. Nimisha is a former member of the UK Government Economic Service and has a Masters in Economics from the London School of Economics & Political Science.       

Competition

Regulation

Digital Economy

Global

Anupama Murali

Anupama has spent over 15 years as an IT consultant in multiple roles across Asia, Europe, and North America. She has led transformation projects for global financial institutions, constantly raising the bar in the way clients implement change within their organisations. It was during her successful professional life, combined with evolving family life, that she discovered that living life being inspired and relaxed at the same time is not so much about adopting new strategies, it is rather about realigning oneself.   She now empowers professionals to shift from reactive to intentional living through her 'Achieve with Equilibrium' coaching, transformational talks, and leadership development programs. She is a specialist in enabling highly accomplished individuals to overcome imposter experiences through the ‘Ignite the Leader Within’ coaching program. Her mission is to empower people to discover their personal resilience comprising resilient thinking, emotional balance, and recovery through personal congruence. She has spoken at several universities in Singapore namely NUS Medicine, Duke NUS, and NTU, and given talks at HP Enterprise, Swiss Re, and Alcon, to name a few.

Self-Awareness

Self-Leadership

Well-Being

Emotional Balance

Self-Empowerment

Global

Hannah Austin

Hannah Austin is a highly sought-after corporate leader and management professional, specializing in the management and prevention of burnout for professionals. As the CEO and Founder of SheShatters, LLC, she draws on her experience consulting and coaching corporate leaders to provide employees- at the mid to high point of their careers with the support they need to burn brightly without burning out. Prior to founding SheShatters, Hannah spent 20 years as an executive in the healthcare industry, a role in which she faced immense pressures and witnessed her colleagues suffering the effect of burnout en-masse.   She became determined to make a change that would impact not only her own path in life but the paths of the many inspiring professionals she knew and worked with. Hannah founded SheShatters in 2021 with the goal of helping employees and managers to find a balance between their personal and professional lives, and on a macro level, leading a movement away from corporate hustle culture.

Leadership

Culture

Employee Engagement and Retention

Burnout

Global

Anoushka Gungadin

Anoushka is the former CEO of The Duke of Edinburgh's Award, a leading global youth program. Anoushka speaks six languages, has lived and worked across Asia, Africa, Europe and Australia, with global brands such as la Oreal, Gide Loyrette Nouel. She is the Vice-President of the Australia India Business Council in Victoria and Chair of Women in Business Chapter. As a Board Director, Speaker, Facilitator and Mentor, Anoushka combines her background as a CEO, Economist, Certified Coach with her 20 years of global work experience to help leaders and businesses become future-ready.    For Anoushka, the future is diverse and intersectional Recognising that we live in globalised societies, with increasingly diverse talent and consumer, Anoushka helps leaders and businesses build cultural intelligence and inclusive diversity to thrive in the modern world, through GlobalCQ. GlobalCQ has been recognised for its innovative vision and is the winner of the 2018 Westpac 200 Businesses of Tomorrow Award. 

Diversity

Inclusion

Culture

Global

Katrina McCarter

Katrina is the founder and CEO of Marketing to Mums, a marketing and research consultancy based in Australia. She is a Marketing Strategist who specializes in understanding mothers as a powerful market sector, through experience and research.     Katrina is the author of best-selling book, Marketing to Mums, and is highly regarded for her creative growth strategies and her ability to negotiate strategic partnerships to increase sales and profits in selling to mums. Katrina is an award-winning businesswoman and mother of three, Katrina is a sought-after international speaker and regular contributor to business media. 

Marketing

Branding

Global

Catarina Rivera

Catarina Rivera, MSEd, MPH, CPACC is a disabled public speaker and DEI consultant with over 14 years of experience in the public sector. Catarina works with companies to improve accessibility and inclusion, retain employees, and design better products. She is the founder of Blindish Latina, a platform smashing disability stigmas through storytelling, advocacy, and training. Catarina has worn hearing aids from a young age and was diagnosed with progressive vision loss at 17 years old.     Catarina has a BA from Duke University, an MSEd from Bank Street College of Education, and an MPH from Hunter College. She is a Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (IAAP). She is a member of RespectAbility's National Disability Speakers Bureau and. Catarina is also committed to social justice.    

Diversity

Equity & Inclusion

Disability Inclusion

Accessibility

Global

Lissy Puno

Lissy focuses her practice on promoting emotional wellness. In her 27 years as a counseling psychologist, she has helped children, teens, couples, and families achieve emotional and psychological wellbeing. Not surprisingly, she has been sought after as a professional speaker across the region - delivering live talks and presentations, facilitating wellness workshops, and appearing on television, print, and radio. With such a background, Lissy now has a wellspring of insight to guide and share with many.     Lissy's professional career has brought her to live and practice in five countries, with Singapore being her base for the past 11 years. With Lissy as one of its founding directors, International Counselling & Psychology Centre was established in 2015. She has authored two books on building and maintaining genuine connectedness as the basis for lifelong relationships and marriages. Her first book, Affairs Don't Just Happen: Protect, Repair, Recover, was launched in 2016, Stay connected (2018)and Couple goals (2019) are interactive journals.   Armed with a Master's degree in Counselling Psychology from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a Clinical Fellowship from Harvard University, Lissy is also a Certified Imago Therapist (advanced clinician) and a Certified Imago Workshop Presenter. 

Psychological Wellness

Relationships

Health & Wellness
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